Unspoken Rules

The thing about unspoken rules is: they’re unspoken. On occasion I think that maybe those rules should be stated. Like perhaps that a chart should be read from right to left!

Yes, I am stupid…no, wait, I refuse to be stupid, I was simply uninformed. However, this now explains why certain charted patterns I had to improvise with. Some patterns have been Eve patters, the same frontwards and backwards. Apparently Koolhaas is not an Eve.

This all came to light yesterday on the phone with Jo. Had the following events not occurred she just would have said she didn’t know what was wrong with me but that her’s looked great!
*Event 1- I own the pattern, she doesn’t, I don’t have a scanner so I took a slightly blurry photo of the pattern for her to copy.
*Event 2 – Jo doesn’t own a printer so she needed to use her roommate’s printer.
*Event 3 – Jo’s roommate had girl over, can’t use printer.
*Event 4 – She tells me to read the pattern to her before realizing that she could just look at it from her screen.
*Event 5 – I begin reading…backwards…she informs me.
*Event 6 – DUH!!!

So…now that I know, I think that it is important for someone to state, perhaps repetitively that charts are to be read from right to left, though I know it makes sense cause that’s the direction that you knit, it is not the direction that you read. Each pattern needs to state this for people like me who previously didn’t know the unspoken rules. Since the beginning of my knitting time I’ve been doing charts backwards. I guess I wouldn’t hate Rebecca so much if I was reading the charts correctly.

The most embarrassing part of this is that I had to give public resolution since I complained publicly about the problem. So, there we are, problem solved.